Suffering Quotes

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Hope is delicate suffering.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.

The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.